How Can I Help?

PARENT VOLUNTEERS

We are looking for parent volunteers to actively participate in their son's Scouting experience!

We currently have the following available positions and opportunities to help:

• Trek Leaders and Assistant Trek Leaders

• Merit Badge Coordinator

• Merit Badge Counselors

Required Adult Registration, Training, and Background Check:
If you want to volunteer or go on a campout with the Troop, you have to complete the following:

1. JOIN TROOP 801 AS AN ADULT
Click on the following link to register through BSA with Troop 801 as an adult and pay the annual membership fee:
JOIN NOW

2. TAKE BSA YOUTH PROTECTION TRAINING
After you have registered as an adult through BSA, click here to login and take Youth Protection training.
When you complete all four YPT modules and pass the test in the fourth module, you will be redirected to a completion screen. About a day after you complete the Boy Scouts YPT, you will be sent a completion certificate to your e-mail. Then forward the YPT completion certificate via email to  our Membership Chair at: MalindaMMarsh (at) yahoo.com

3. REQUIRED STATE MANDATED REPORTER TRAINING
All Volunteer and Adult Leaders shall complete the California Mandated Reporter Training: Volunteers.
The training is online and takes about two hours to complete. 

4. UPLOAD COMPLETED TRAINING CERTIFICATE
Once you have finished the training, upload your state Mandated Reporter Training Certificate to the San Diego – Imperial Council page on the California Scouting portal at: https://californiascouting.org/sdic/

5. LIVE SCAN FINGERPRINTING BACKGROUND CHECK
You can register for your background check at www.ApplicantServices.com/SDIC.  For more detailed instructions on setting up your livescan appointment, please read the document here.
Note that the background check fee of $41 will be reimbursed to you by Troop 801 once it is completed. 

6. IF YOU PLAN ON GOING ON AN OUTING, COMPLETE AND SUBMIT HEALTH FORMS
Complete BSA Health Form Parts A and B if you will go on any outing. Part C is also needed if you go on any outing that lasts more than 72 hours . Then submit the completed forms to our Medical Forms Coordinator at a meeting or via email at: teresabastuba (at) gmail.com

DONATIONS OF SUPPLIES OR FUNDS

Donations of supplies are always needed and greatly appreciated.
To donate supplies to Troop 801 please contact us using our Contact Us form.

Why should I volunteer or donate?

For Every 100 Boys who join the Boy Scouts:

• Only rarely will one be brought before Juvenile Court

• One will use his Scouting skills to save another person's life

• Two will use his Scouting skills to save his own life

• Four will become Eagle Scouts

• Eight will enter a vocation that was learned through the Merit Badge program

• Twelve will have their first contact with a church

• Seventeen will be future Scouting volunteers

• Eighteen will develop hobbies used during their adult life

The "Values of Americans" study conducted by Harris Interactive revealed that compared to their non-Scout counterparts, men who were Scouts are more likely to:

• Earn a college degree (35% vs. 17%)

• Own their own homes (74% vs. 65%)

• Have a higher average household income ($80,000 vs. $61,000)

• 83% of men who were Scouts agreed that the values they learned in Scouting continue to be very important to them today.

Likewise, a recent study by Baylor University found that compared to their non-Eagle Scout counterparts, men who had achieved the rank of Eagle Scout were more likely to:

• Have higher levels of planning and preparation skills, be goal-oriented, and network with others

• Be in a leadership position at their place of employment or local community

• Report having closer relationships with family and friends

• Volunteer for religious and nonreligious organizations

• Donate money to charitable groups

• Work with others to improve their neighborhoods

Thank you for volunteering and donating!